Linear is always a lagging indicator

A fleshed-out linear/jira ticket is essentially done aside from the code writing, review, and deployment. Why? Because these final steps are nearly automated for us these days. But where do you track the work that goes into writing a good ticket (aka prompt)? Is the answer ticket-writing tickets? We have offhand conversations and design reviews and 1:1s and only then, once we have some semblance of how the engineering should be done, do we cut a ticket for implementation. And even then we might not be sure of the size of the work.